Moving a router+modem to another part of the building

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I am currently mid way through executing a conversion of my garage to a media room. Unfortunately, the internet connection there will be incredibly weak because the modem/router is located at the other side of the house.

To give you an idea of things here is an example of the drop in signal. I currently use Virgin media's Superhub modem/router and am on 60mb broadband. When i am in the newly converted media room i struggle to connect and when i do it is about a tenth of my speed in comparison to any computers located near the router.

I would like to know if it is possible to move the superhub. Every room use to be wired with a Virgin media box though the extra TVs were canceled in every room except the room with the superhub in. I am not bothered about TV as it hasn't been switched on in years.

My questions are:

Is it possible to move the router to another room and have Virgin Media change which Room the signals are active?

What are the costs of this if any, due to perhaps maintenance needed to adjust powerlevels?

Is there any other solutions? (The electrics of the garage are separate from the house if it is relevant to any suggested solutions)


With the distance between the current placement of the superhub and the media room, i am skeptical of the reliability of wireless extenders and I don't have the luxury of using super long Ethernet cables. I have telephoned Virgin Media and they just kept forwarding me to different department help centers which seemed to think it was another departments expertise. I hope that if i come to them with my own solution in mind (or yours if you suggest one) i can receive better help.

Thanks
 
Even if you have an answer to one of my questions or maybe some feedback as to the effectiveness of wireless extenders to revive my hopes of an easy, 'no need to call up a call center for hours' solution.
 
A simple option would be to add a wireless access point (or spare router configured as one) within range of your new media room. Connect it back to the VM router using a cable or Powerline adapters.
 
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I dont have a spare router and have found out it costs £99 to move the router to the other room through Virgin Media.

This seems to be about the same cost as a decent router, so i may just do this. Though it pains me to ring them up D:
 
Or unplug the modem, call them up to report a fault.

When the enginner comes round to look at it. Give him £30 to move it.

This will only cost you £30 :D
 
When you say the electrics are separate from the house do you mean they're on a different ring main?
 
If you have the Virgin coaxial connectors in other rooms... have you tried to just connect the SuperHub to another one of these, and see if it works?

So long as they're connected back to the cabinet in the street, then it'll be fine. It's quite probable that there's a single line from the cabinet onto you property, then a splitter within the junction box on the outside of the house.

If you can then move the SuperHub to a more central location, or close enough to be able to run an ethernet cable to the garage, then you're in luck.


Testing this will cost you nothing but 5 minutes in time.
 
I will try that, but i am pretty sure the signal is cut off, since the media box doesnt work in that room when it was canceled from the contract.

As for running the hub closer to the garage, not a chance without having wire everywhere. The garage is probably as far from the router as it can possibly be.
 
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